Dramaturgie im zeitgenössischen Tanz ist ? positiv gemeint ? ein heißes Eisen. Idealerweise sind Dramaturginnen und Dramaturgen während der Erarbeitung eines Stücks die besten Freunde der Choreografen.
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Die Welt 08.05.2007
Jörg von Uthmann isolates several cultural objectives in a policy speech given last year by Nicolas Sarkozy: "Culture and education are to be merged into one big ministry.
Universities are to receive more funding, as is art education at
school. And the same goes for foreigners studying in France. On the
other hand, Sarkozy also wants to encourage private patrons to do more
in this area, which despite all his messages to the contrary is still
seen by the high-handed cultural bureaucrats as their own private domain."
Süddeutsche Zeitung 08.05.2007
Burkhard Müller pays a compliment of sorts to Thomas Pynchon, who turns seventy today. "Pynchon's books float by like clouds,
inspiring in readers the irresistible urge to identify figures and
patterns in their highly vivid forms. But in fact they're just clouds,
whose changeable complexity refers back to nothing other than
themselves."
Die Tageszeitung 08.05.2007
Heimo Lattner of the artist group e-Xplo explains to Kirsten Küppers why their contribution to the Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates consists of a number of loud speakers distributed throughout the country, playing love songs by gastarbeiters.
"In the run-up to the Biennale, we were concerned that the huge
majority of people in the Emirates have no voice in the sense of a
political voice. Over 85 percent of the work here is done by
foreigners. These are people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China,
Iran, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Philippines, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia etc.
These people have no rights whatsoever. We were interested in how the
political voice of these people might sound. And the fact that it is
illegal in Sharjah to report on one's working conditions was of course
an added provocation."
Süddeutsche Zeitung 08.05.2007
In the series on global megacities, the Daily Telegraph film critic, Sukhdev Sandhu (more), proclaims Brick Lane
as his favourite place in London because it is constantly being
converted by migrants: "If you walk along Brick Lane today, past the
converted steam baths and soup kitchens, the buildings with the faded
lettering from old tailors and tinned-goods dealers, you will
eventually come to the Jamme Masjid. This mosque was built in
1742 as a Huguenot chapel and was taken over by the Methodists in the
19th century, before becoming a synagogue in 1989 in front of which
Jewish anarchists would regularly hurl strips of bacon at the oldest members of the Orthodox community. For a long time Brick Lane was not even considered a part of London."
Der Tagesspiegel 08.05.2007
In an interview with Nicola Kuhn, painter Daniel Richter talks about his retrospective in Hamburg's Kunsthalle,
the pressure to put labels on things, and artistic success: "If
something's good, it'll be successful. A musician or
a writer might write a fantastic book then take a nose-dive.
In art that's hardly possible, because of art's economic basis and easy
accessibility. In the 20th century many artists went hungry as a result
of pogroms and wars. Still, they became famous. It hardly happens that
an artist's work is re-interpreted once they're dead. All others have
the usual ups and downs, and that's how it'll be with me, too. Now I'm
having a good period, then will come a bad one, then remorse, humility,
self-questioning, twelve-tone music."
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